In this paper I study whether the adoption of Iso9001 certification in Italy, between 2011 and 2019, has helped small firms to reduce gap productivity, profitability wages paid workers, with leading group operating on frontier. After a pooled OLS estimation, difference-in-difference model fixed effects been applied. find that does support below frontier partially recover terms multifactor produ...

introduction: applying quality management systems can be useful for the development of health care organizations standards, services, quality improvement and costs reduction. the purpose of this study is to investigate the possibility of applying quality management system iso9001/2000 in hospitals affiliated with medical sciences universities from managers' viewpoints. methods and materials: it...

Traceability is a concept relating to all types of products and it is strictly linked to supply chain management, aiming to keep trace of the products along their entire lifecycle. In this work a new methodological approach to realize a traceability system is presented. The system developed has been structured with the aim to give a model that can be applied to the most common production realit...

In this chapter, we discuss how a leading telecommunications software development company went about outsourcing some phases of the system development life cycle (SDLC) of network management systems in order to achieve both the short-term tactical goals as well as the long-term strategic goals. We present a framework consisting of seven factors that should be used by companies using outsourcing...

The Vital Jacket® (VJ) is a wearable vital signs monitoring system that joins textiles with microelectronics. After several years of development within the university lab, it has been licensed to a start-up company. Its evolutions have focused on cardiology and sports and scaled down from a jacket to a single T-shirt. The VJ manufacturing process has recently been certified to comply with the s...